Night weaning 8 month old breastfed baby

[Carleton]

Anyone had success in nightweaning at this age, 8 months? Its my 2nd baby and i waited untill 18 months with my first which in hind sight was too long . As soon as i stopped breastfeeding him he slept much better.My baby is up all night comfort sucking. She eats 3 meals a day. Thanks

For many babies it’s too early.

8 months is when I did it. Just sent DH in to do cuddles instead. DC1 slept through on night 4, dC2 was night 2.

I’m trying to do it now for a 12 month old. We’re down to waking at 3am when DH can get her back to sleep with a cuddle but we’re at night 7 now and she’s waking every morn at 4.50 and screams the place down til I feed her. Can’t imagine getting to a more palatable time of 6/6.30am at this stage! Think 8 months would’ve been poss too early for us but we were also not in the right position to do it anyway (moving house).

At 9 months rather than night wean I moved to dream feeds, my son was also feeding all night and I thought it would be too much to suddenly take away all those calories, so I dream fed him at 10 and 2am, but every time he woke up he was resettled with bum pats/back rubs. It helped that we’d stopped feeding to sleep at bedtime so he was used to being put to sleep in that way. It worked and he started to drop the wake ups around the dream feeds, I think I carried on with both feeds for about a month, then dropped the 10pm one and then dropped the 2am when he was about 1ish. Good luck x

I just offered water in a bottle for night wakings at that age.

But it depends on how your baby is, it may be too young for your baby, or just the right time.

To be honest, my ds 2 just did not sleep. Didn't matter what we did or didn't do, so I just went along with whatever got us the most sleep. But I stopped bf altogether with him at 8 months, so there was no bf or suckling all night. Just plain awake all night!

Thanks for replies. Dappledthings were you cosleeping?thanks